Natural disaster losses in the U.S. currently cost $120 billion annually. The socio-economic impacts of this ballooning societal cost are highly regressive and call for an urgent response. Adequate investments in climate resilience not only push out the tipping point but also invigorate the economy, promote equity and contribute to the common good....more
Tag: Housing Finance
As summer turned to autumn, the Federal Reserve continued its practice of raising interest rates to stop and reverse the inflationary pressures on the U.S. economy that has become one of the foremost domestic issues of 2022....more
The U.S. Census Bureau recently published Community Resilience Estimates. SP Group analyzes and applies housing market assessment....more
In our earlier blogs, we followed the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey (HPS) to examine the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the housing market....more
From the start of this pandemic, the performance of the housing market has been counter-intuitive....more
In this blog, we investigate the impact of unemployment on homeowners based on their education attainment....more
The increase in forbearance rates are concerning, but the degree to which it can be a predictor of defaults and foreclosures is far less certain....more